Posted on 05/23/2002 1:10:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Nowhere in James Sterngold's story will readers learn that this "dark horse" leads in several recent polls. Why is that rather important fact left out?
For all the naysayers out there not giving Simon a chance. He most definitely has a chance to win this thing, so the sooner everyone gets on board and supports him...
Simon has been out and about plenty and I have received many emails intelligently critical of Davis and his shenanigans. The media chooses to not report on Simon.
This will be the grassroots campaign to end all grassroots campaigns when Simon beats Davis.
Freepers Unite! Dump Davis! Elect Simon!
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Parsing the 'left' and getting it right.
Somebody else is clarifying for those not motivated to 'parse' between the lines.
Do I translate that into that you are not involved in being part of the solution to California's socialist/communist anti-American leanings in government?
If he goes down, this will spread to other states and take more Rat governors down. Then, it could spread into states where Rat Senators are up for reelection.
So they have to do anything to make it appear that Simon is not winning inspite of the news each day re Davis. Then, they have to help Davis blame everything onto Enron and eventually Dick Cheney and GW. Davis has been blaming GW before he even became president for what Davis has brought onto California.
If Simon defeats Davis, and GW continues to pick up Hispanic voters in California and then Simon's voters, the Rats have lost 2004 before it even starts with GW's popularity in other states.
Their survival as a party needs to keep Davis as governor and to find a wedge issue to minimize GW in 2004. If Davis loses this year and they lose 10 - 12 seats in the senate, they are toast from 2003 to the end of GW's second term.
The NY Slimes will spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make Davis look like a winner, not the petty fascist criminal he is.
"TRUST ME! I'M YOUR GOVERNOR! I WOULD NEVER LIE TO MY SHEEPLE, ER CALIFORNIANS!"
I'm just being realistic. The fact is, whatever chance Simon has of winning depends on accurately assessing Davis' strength. I don't think Simon can run a campaign that just says "I'm not Davis" and win. I don't think pointing out California's problems under Davis, like the budget deficit, is enough either. He has to run a sharp edged campaign in my view.
Bush's team committed a nearly fatal error in thinking they had the election wrapped up the last couple of weeks of the campaign. Gore kept saying "the health of the economy will be on the ballot election day" and Bush basically had no answer for it, even though alot of evidence was accumulating that the economy was slowing dramatically. Bush's team seemed to be unaware of it, or perhaps they feared pointing it out would backfire. The fact is they needed to be saying that the economy wasn't looking so hot in response to Gore.
Davis has the special interest votes he's buying and the pro-abortion vote, which is substantial in California. Simon needs to win the mushy middle of the road voters by a wide margin, meaning he has to motivate them to show up and vote heavily for him. With Davis' advertising blitz and his "It's all Enron's fault" spin, Simon probably can't do it.
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